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Mark Olson will be on his way to Europe soon, and I hope he holds on to the appreciation of the small crowd at the Cooperage last night until he gets there. He arrived here on tour after traveling through the deep south, and was most appreciative to be back in our dry climate (for personal hygiene reasons, among others). Boris McCuthcheon was scheduled to open for Mark, but he didn’t make it down from Santa Fe. Touring in support of his latest release “Salvation Blues,” Mark opened with just a… Continue

I moved back to Albuquerque after spending several years in the northern Rockies, and it was partly because I get pretty tired there of moving snow – shoveling it, snow blowing it, even snow plowing it – it could be fun for a while, but those times when you had to deal with it nonstop for a day or three became just too much.

I still like to play in snow, though, and I li…

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